A Personal Reflection on a Training Experience in Vietnam by Kansiime Ruth Praise As I reflect on the transformative journey through “Closing the Gender Nutrition Gap” training organized by the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network (SUN CSN) in collaboration with Vietnam Civil Society Alliance (CSA), a spectrum of experiences, insights, and cultural immersions flood […]
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A Timely and Engaging Learning Experience:
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Nutrition Sensitive training in the Philippines – A Tale of Experience
A photoblog by Georgine Obwana – CSA Uganda In this ever-changing world, it is necessary to keep updating yourself, your knowledge, and your intellect, to keep up with the continuous growth and development taking place. This is exactly why the one week blended international course on Enhancing Capacities on Nutrition – Sensitive programing (NSP) has […]
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The Small Grants Programme Report is here!
Since 2018 SUN CSN has run a small grants programme, which invites interested & eligible CSAs and their members to apply for small grants, to implement and pilot small projects for research or innovation purposes over a 6-month period. Between 2018 – 2022 The SUN CSN Small Grants Programme has run four cycles of funding […]
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One year on from the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit, SUN CSN launches a social accountability campaign to hold stakeholders to account for promises made. The SUN Civil Society Network, along with the support of network members and global partners, want to see that the bold commitments we all made for nutrition become a reality! […]
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Get to know the Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance
Who is the GNC Technical Alliance? The Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance exists to provide systematic, predictable, timely, cost-effective and coordinated nutrition technical assistance to help nutrition practitioners meet the nutrition rights and needs of people affected by and at risk of emergencies. We provide expert guidance, learning and training, either remotely, through providing online […]
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Flooding in Pakistan: Fears for Nutrition and Food Security
Flooding in Pakistan: Fears for Nutrition and Food Security Devastating flooding in Pakistan has swept away crops and stockpiles and left large areas of farmland under water, deteriorating the precarious food and nutrition security in the country. The communities who were already living on the edge now need to cope with this sudden shock of […]
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The system is broken, now what? Five things we can do to make our advocacy demands a reality.
This September 2022, our members gathered again for a Virtual Assembly, the second of its kind. The objective was to agree upon the practical steps to deliver on a set of advocacy demands that emerged through a consultative process after our first virtual assembly. With the overarching goal to mitigate the impact of ongoing and […]
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Get Involved with the Latest CS Network Assembly!
Our first ever network-wide Virtual Assembly took place in May against the backdrop of ongoing global crises, which have seen food prices rise and access to adequate nutrition further diminished. Together, CSN members discussed how communities have been impacted and what we needed to change in the global food system to mitigate the impact of […]
ReadOur first ever network-wide Virtual Assembly took place in May against the backdrop of ongoing global crises, which have seen food prices rise and access to adequate nutrition further diminished.
Together, CSN members discussed how communities have been impacted and what we needed to change in the global food system to mitigate the impact of ongoing and future crises on global nutrition and the right to adequate food.
The outcome of those discussions has been packaged into a joint network declaration, with five key advocacy demands that emerged through this consultative process with all CSN Members.
Building on the success of the first virtual assembly in May 2022, we are holding a follow-up network event to focus on the practical steps required to deliver these demands. During and after this event, we need network members to express interest in participating and leading working groups (supported by the secretariat) on follow-up activities to take these advocacy demands forward.
Register for the next assembly here
On 20th September 13:00 UTC, we will host this second assembly where we will divide participants according to the area they are most interested in and together we will outline our CSN advocacy plans. If you’ve ever been interested in developing an advocacy strategy, or seeing how one comes together, now’s your chance!
We will be building on the many amazing pieces of work everyone is implementing around the world and learning from everyone’s experiences. In order to create this rich and fulfilling discussion we need to hear from you!
This survey asks your preference of the five demands and will help determine which area of discussion everyone wants to focus on. It asks what is already happening in these areas in your country, and is the chance for you to share any amazing advocacy and programming work you are doing in order to foster the peer-to-peer learnings we hope to have at the virtual assembly.
Please do fill out the survey and encourage your fellow CSN members to do the same as it will make our discussions far more fruitful and if you, or anyone you know wants to go a step further and volunteer to co-facilitate during the event then please get in touch here!
We hope that those members who participate in the survey and the next virtual assembly will be the first to own the joint advocacy demands and have the first chance to sign onto the declaration on behalf of their CSA or organisation.
Below, we have summarised each of the advocacy demands for ease of access.
- Advocating for all countries to make every effort, using all available resources, to satisfy their obligations to uphold the right to food and ensure access to nutrition
- Advocating for National Governments to invest in local food systems policies and programs
- Advocating for legislation to minimise the impact of commodity price speculation and the dominance of multinational corporations on our food systems
- Advocating for mechanisms such as debt relief or debt cancellation that would enable low-income and debt-burdened countries to increase their government spending on nutrition interventions
- Advocating for all nutrition stakeholders to honour the commitments they made at N4G and in national Food Systems Transformation Pathways
You can read the full, final draft of the declaration and the advocacy demands by clicking here.
Don’t forget to sign up to secure your place at the assembly!
